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This one-day foundation course is built for total beginners and for anyone who's dabbled in acrylics but never had the fundamentals properly explained.

MEMBER: $90

NON-MEMBER: $110

In a single focused day you'll learn how acrylic actually behaves — its fast dry time, its opacity, its layering power — and how to use those properties deliberately instead of fighting them. No prior painting experience is needed. By the end of the day you'll have a completed piece in hand and the technical grounding to keep going.

All abilities are welcome.

Workshop Plan

Materials, palette setup, and how acrylic behaves differently from watercolour or oil
Core techniques: blending, layering, opacity control, and colour mixing
Building a finished piece using the day's techniques

Materials List

You will need to bring the basic brushes, paints, canvas board and a stay wet palette.

Brushes

A set of 4 brushes, 2 round (size 6,12) and 2 flat (10mm,16mm)— synthetic bristle is fine and inexpensive
A palette knife (small, for mixing).

Paints

Titanium White
Primary Yellow (e.g. Cadmium Yellow or Hansa Yellow)
Primary Red or Magenta (e.g. Naphthol Red or Quinacridone Magenta)
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue
Burnt Sienna
Yellow Ochre
A basic student-grade set covering these colours is entirely sufficient for this course.

Surface

A canvas board or canvas pad, 30 x 30 cm or 30 x 40 cm — at least 2 sheets/boards for practice and the final piece.

Other Basics

An old towel or rag, a water container, and an apron or old shirt — acrylic does not wash out once dry
A spray bottle if you have one (keeps paint workable on the palette)
A stay wet palette, a simple flat plastic kitchen box with a flat rag or thin sponge and covered with baking paper will suffice or buy one on line.

About Paulus

Paulus Kooij is a Sunshine Coast-based visual artist working across watercolour, oil, acrylic, pastel, pencil, and plaster sculpture. A retired industrial chemist and project manager, Paulus brings a precise, technically grounded approach to teaching — breaking painting down into principles that genuinely explain why a technique works, not just how to copy it. He teaches watercolour and other media through local groups and gallery-based courses, and is known for hands-on, demonstration-led classes where questions are always welcome.

Tea and coffee will be provided. Please BYO lunch.

create@noosaartsandcrafts.org.au

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